xiv, 335 p. : 24 cm

Introduction -- Part 1 : Speaking up for the disenfranchised -- Fighting for the rights of American labor ; Awakening a nation to the sins of slavery ; Setting a revolutionary agenda for women's rights -- Part 2 : Struggling to form a more perfect union -- Promoting free love in the Victorian age ; Crusading against the barbarism of lynching ; Educating America on the merits of socialism ; Following anarchy toward a new social order -- Part 3: Rising from a lone voice to a mass movement -- Propelling Black Americans into the promised land ; Demanding wider access to birth control information -- Part 4 : Changing the world in a single generation -- Opposing America's dirty war in Vietnam ; Defining a counterculture of sex, drugs, rock 'n' roll...and social justice ; Standing tall and tough against racial oppression ; Creating an agenda for gay and lesbian rights ; Liberating the American woman ; Dissidence in a new millennium

Includes bibliographical references and index

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